Quotes About Humanity

It was not the largest genocide in the history of the world, but it was the fastest and most efficient.

We should all be merely animals. As humans, there are miseries nothing can put us out of.

Is not our capacity to laugh and cry the measure of our humanity?

The guides explained that they want to help us realize we are not alone, and that there is a better way of living and evolving that is sustainable. But, before they give us the tools and technology to continue our evolution, they need to be assured that whatever they do for us will be for the benefit of ALL humanity, not just those in power who will use it to further their own agendas.

Most people on earth are poor. Most places are blighted and nothing will stop the blight getting worse. Travel gives you glimpses of the past and the future, your own and other people's.

as Henry James had said in a letter to a do-gooding friend, "Only don't, I beseech you, generalize too much in these sympathies and tendernesses—remember that every life is a special problem which is not yours but another's, and content yourself with the terrible algebra of your own.

Sometimes a whispered word, or a single image or glimpse of humanity, can be a powerful motivation for looking deeper into the world.

If we expect compassion, we must be ready to offer compassion.

How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?

God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!

More than ever knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary.

Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.

knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary. It comes to a person most clearly when he has daughters.

Covek ne voli zato sto zeli da ucini dobro, ili da pomogne, ili da zastiti nekoga. Ako tako postupamo, posmatramo svog bliznjeg kao puki objekat, a sami sebe dozivljavamo kao velikodusne i mudre osobe. To nema nikakve veze s ljubavlju. Voleti znaci ostvariti zajednistvo s drugim i otkriti u njemu bozansku iskru.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.

everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.

If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange